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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;text-align:left" align="left"><span style="font-size:10pt">A reminder that</span><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"> Mayor James Palmer will speak at the event <span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">"Does Cambridge Deserve
Better: A new vision for the region,</span> tomorrow.</span><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt">Tuesday 5th September 7- 8.30pm</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt"> Cambridge Rugby Club, Grantchester Road</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt">Details of the event are listed on Eventbrite <u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://bit.ly/2vI4FPo" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">bit.ly/2vI4FPo</span></a></span></u></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;text-align:left;line-height:200%" align="left"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%" lang="EN-US">FeCRA has been invited to participate. There should be a good turn out.
Come and share your views. You don't need to have registered to attend but it would be helpful for the organisers of the event ( members of the 54 community groups that signed the letter to the Greater Cambridge Partnership) to know numbers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;text-align:left;line-height:200%" align="left"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;text-align:left;line-height:200%" align="left"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%" lang="EN-US"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><font color="#000000">The event </font>"Does Cambridge Deserve Better</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%;color:black"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">"</span> is timely because increasingly many of you are sharing with us details of the ugly piecemeal developer led growth that is impacting the city on all fronts. Quality of life issues, price
tag, heritage report, conservation status, council corporate plan, Local Plan appear to offer no protection. You are asking us why aren't the planners your friends.You single out:</span>
</p><ul><li><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Symbol"><span><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%">Speed
and volume of the development</span></b></li></ul><b></b><ul><li><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%">Ugliness
of it – eg of CB1 Station development with pop-up brothels, highlighted
by Olly Wainwright in <i>The Guardian</i> <span> </span>as a “Cambridge embarrassment”.</span></b></li></ul><ul><li><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%">Aggressive
expansion of “brand Cambridge” student housing </span></b>
</li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Symbol"><span></span></span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%">Transience,
impact of buy to let & houses in multiple occupation</span></b></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Symbol"><span><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%">Demolition
of Cambridge character: impact on the River Cam, homes, trees, streets, gardens, public space<br></span></b></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Symbol"><span><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%">Massive
impact on wildlife corridors – hedgehogs, bats, birds, newts, deer </span></b></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Symbol"><span><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%">No
affordable housing to compensate for the ugliness</span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%">Cambridge communities all over the city are paying the price <br></span></b></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;text-align:left;line-height:200%" align="left"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%">I
attach a leaflet from North Newtown RA about the demolition on Panton St. Please do
write and object. The deadline for people to object is Sept 8. We will be following up
shortly about <span></span>concerns. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;text-align:left;line-height:200%" align="left"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%">Best wishes,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;text-align:left;line-height:200%" align="left"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%">Wendy<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;text-align:left;line-height:200%" align="left"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:200%"><br></span></p>
<div><div class="m_-4734699334241218722gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Wendy Blythe<br></div>Chair, FeCRA<br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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